DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

ALIAH UNIVERSITY

4 YEAR HONOURS IN ENGLISH WITH

RESERCH

SYLLABUS AS PER 2020 NEP REGULATIONS

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 PROGRAMME TITLE: 4 YEAR HONOURS IN ENGLISH WITH RESERCH

Programme Objectives:
1. The programme aims to help the students appreciate the literary and cultural developments
in English as well as in other Indian languages. Thereby the programme would try to inculcate
human values among them that would make a better world.

2. The programme is expected to develop analytical faculty of the learners taking into
consideration socio-political, economic, and other relevant factors that have inflected the literary
domain and have been influenced by literary works and ideas. The analysis of texts and relating
those to lived experiences would further help the students hone their skills in research.

3. The programme also aims to make the students familiar with ideas and issues related to
gender, caste, race and religion, factors which have often become markers of discrimination in
different parts of the world at different times. Understanding these factors as represented in
literary, and cultural texts would enable the students to develop a sense of the real as they
embark on the journey of life beyond academics.

4. The programme also tries to generate interest among students in the various domains of
knowledge which are apparently not related to English literature. However, the focus on
interdisciplinary approaches would help the students break the barriers between different
disciplines of knowledge and opening newer avenues of research.

5. The programme would help the students develop such skills which will make them employable
in the ever-evolving job-market, both global and local. Skill in communication, ability to handle
technology and analysing contexts and situations taught in certain components of the
programme would be beneficial for the candidates in finding jobs in fields other than academics.

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SYLLABUS STRUCTURE WITH CREDIT DISTRIBUTION AND COURSE CODES

Total
Year Sem Course Type Course Code Paper Title Credit
Credit
History of English
I Major/CORE 1 ENGUGMCC1101 Literature: I (450 AD to 4
1700 AD)
An Introduction to the
I Major/CORE 2 ENGUGMCC1102
Study of English Literature
4
History of English
I MINOR 1 ENGUGMIN1101 Literature: I (450 AD to 4
1700 AD) 22

I Multidisciplinary ENGUGMDC1101 Gender and Human Rights 3

I AEC UCCUGAEC1102 English Communication 4

I SEC ENGUGSEC1101 Soft Skill 3

1st
History of English
II Major/CORE 3 ENGUGMCC1203 Literature: II (1701 AD to 4
the Present)
An Introduction to the
II Major/CORE 4 ENGUGMCC1204
Study of English Language
4
History of English
II MINOR 2 ENGUGMIN1202 Literature: II (1701 AD to 4
the Present) 22

II Multidisciplinary UCCUGMDC1202 Arabic and Islamic Studies 3

II SEC ENGUGSEC1201 Technical Writing 3

II VAC UCCUGVAC1202 Understanding India 4

British Literature: Medieval to

III Major/CORE 5 ENGUGMCC2305
Commonwealth Period
4
2nd 22
British Literature: Neoclassical
III Major/CORE 6 ENGUGMCC2306 Age
4

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 British Literature: Medieval
III MINOR 3 ENGUGMIN2303
to Commonwealth Period
4

Literature and Women

III Multidisciplinary ENGUGMDC2303
Empowerment in India
3

III AEC UCCUGAEC2301 MIL (Bengali/Urdu/Hindi) 4

III SEC ENGUGSEC2303 Business Communication 3

British Literature: Romantic

IV Major/CORE 7 ENGUGMCC2407
Period
4

British Literature: Victorian

IV Major/CORE 8 ENGUGMCC2408
Period
4

IV Major/CORE 9 ENGUGMCC2409 Indian Classical Literature 4 20

British Literature: Neoclassical

IV MINOR 4 ENGUGMIN2404
Age
4

IV VAC UCCUGVAC2401 Environmental Studies 4

British Literature: Modern

V Major/CORE 10 ENGUGMCC3510 Period
4

V Major/CORE 11 ENGUGMCC3511 British Literature: Post-1945 4

20
V Major/CORE 12 ENGUGMCC3512 Literary Criticism 4

3rd British Literature: Romantic

V MINOR 5 ENGUGMIN3505 Period
4

V SIP ENGUGSIP3501 SIP-I 4

VI Major/CORE 13 ENGUGMCC3613 Literary Theory-I 4 20

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 VI Major/CORE 14 ENGUGMCC3614 Indian Writing in English 4

VI ENGUGMCC3615 American Literature 4

Major/CORE 15
Science Fiction and Detective
Literature/ Literature and
VI Major/DSE 01 ENGUGMDS3601 Cinema/Literature of the
4
Indian Diaspora
British Literature: Victorian
VI MINOR 6 ENGUGMIN3606 Period
4

Literary Theory -II (Focus on

Major Theorists and Reading/
VII Major/CORE 16 ENGUGMCC4716 Discussion of Representative 4
Essay(s)/ Book of each
Theorist)

VII Major/CORE 17 ENGUGMCC4717 Postcolonial Literatures 4

Modern Indian Writing in

English Translation/Literature
VII Major/DSE 02 ENGUGMDS4702
on the Partition of India / Dalit
4 24
Literature
Research Methodology/ Travel
VII Major/DSE 03 ENGUGMDS4703
Writing/ Popular Literature
4

4th British Literature: Modern

VII MINOR 7 ENGUGMIN4707
Period
4

VII DISSERTATION ENGUGPRJ4701 Dissertation-I 4

Major/CORE 18 ENGUGMCC4818 European Classical Literature 4

VIII
Major/CORE 19 ENGUGMCC4819 Modern European Literature 4
VIII 24
Emerging Literary Trends in
English Literature /
Major/DSE 04 ENGUGMDS4804 4
Autobiographical Literature/
VIII Literature and Gender

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 MINOR 8 ENGUGMIN4808 British Literature: Post-1945 4
VIII
DISSERTATION ENGUGPRJ4802 Dissertation--II 4
VIII
DISSERTATION ENGUGPRJ4803 Dissertation-III 4
VIII

EVALUATION:

4 Credit Course: End Semester Examination - 80 Marks

Internal Assessment – 20 Marks

3 Credit Course: End Semester Examination - 60 Marks

Internal Assessment – 15 Marks

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 Curriculum /Course Mapping
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 SYLLABUS
NEP 2020
UG FIRST YEAR

SEMESTER: I

Course Type: Course Title: History of English Literature-I: 450 AD

Core to 1700 AD
Course Code:
Credit: 4
ENGUGMCC1101

Course Description:
This course presents an extensive socio-political chronicle of English literature, spanning
from the Anglo-Saxon era to the Restoration period. It meticulously examines the
historical and literary milestones of these epochs, providing students with a
comprehensive understanding of the evolution of literature from its oral traditions to
written texts. The curriculum delves into the historical progression of heroic epics,
mystery plays, miracle plays, Elizabethan drama, and Restoration drama. Students will be
introduced to seminal literary figures such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare,
Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Alexander Pope, Daniel
Defoe, and Jonathan Swift. This course is designed to cultivate a foundational knowledge
of English literature, equipping students for further scholarly exploration in the future.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to understand the influence of major social events on literature and vice
versa.
2. Students will be able to understand the journey of English literature from oral tradition to the
written format.
3. Students will come to know about the socio-political structure and hierarchy of Great Britain
of Renaissance and Restoration period.

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4. Students will learn to read the change in the socio-cultural perspectives of Renaissance and
Restoration populace which gradually shaped the literature and culture. "

Unit Contents
1 Old and Middle English Period
2 The Renaissance and Elizabethan Period
3 Jacobean and Caroline Age
4 Puritan Interregnum and the Restoration

Course Type: Course Title: An Introduction to the Study of English

Core Literature
Course Code:
Credit: 4
ENGUGMCC1102
Course Description:
This course provides students with a foundational understanding of English literature,
encompassing the introduction of literary terms, their definitions, and distinctions. It
includes the study of rhetoric and prosody, respectively known as the “art of persuasion”
and the “music of language,” which collectively impart structural knowledge to the
students. Additionally, the course offers a component on “Critical Appreciation of Unseen
Passages,” aimed at enhancing students’ cognitive literary and critical skills.

Course Outcome:
1.Students will be able to understand how literature functions and operates.

2. Students will be able to understand the basic structural nuances of literary genres.

3. Students will be able to differentiate and appreciate different literary genre, the beauty
of literature, which will encourage them for their personal endeavor.

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4. Students will learn to read and analyze literary pieces, which will, eventually, develop
their analytical skills.

Unit Contents
1 Literary Terms
2 Rhetoric
3 Prosody
4 Critical Appreciation of an Unseen Passage.

Course Type: Course Title: History of English Literature-I: 450 AD

Minor to 1700 AD
Course Code:
Credit: 4
ENGUGMIN1101

Course Description:
This course presents an extensive socio-political chronicle of English literature, spanning
from the Anglo-Saxon era to the Restoration period. It meticulously examines the
historical and literary milestones of these epochs, providing students with a
comprehensive understanding of the evolution of literature from its oral traditions to
written texts. The curriculum delves into the historical progression of heroic epics,
mystery plays, miracle plays, Elizabethan drama, and Restoration drama. Students will be
introduced to seminal literary figures such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare,
Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Alexander Pope, Daniel
Defoe, and Jonathan Swift. This course is designed to cultivate a foundational knowledge
of English literature, equipping students for further scholarly exploration in the future.

Course Outcome
1. Students will be able to understand the influence of major social events on literature
and vice versa.
2. Students will be able to understand the journey of English literature from oral tradition
to the written format.

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3. Students will come to know about the socio-political structure and hierarchy of Great
Britain of Renaissance and Restoration period.

4. Students will learn to read the change in the socio-cultural perspectives of Renaissance
and Restoration populace which gradually shaped the literature and culture.

Unit Contents
1 Old and Middle English Period

2 The Renaissance and Elizabethan Period

3 Jacobean and Caroline Age
4 Puritan Interregnum and the Restoration

Course Type:
Course Title: Gender and Human Rights
Multidisciplinary

Course Code:
Credit: 3
ENGUGMDC1101

Course Description:
This course introduces students to a novel array of social mechanisms and their functions.
It employs multidisciplinary approaches to gender and human rights, utilizing a diverse
set of socio-cultural materials. This will enable students to comprehend the historical
evolution of gender roles, their operation within conventional societies, associated
controversies and debates, and their continuous redefinition across the globe.
Additionally, the course offers various cultural and literary perspectives on gender and
human rights issues within society.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to understand the gender and rights discrimination and how to
encounter them as recurring social issues.

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2. Students will learn the historical injustices of humans regarding gender and rights
issues, and how the modern functionary works to secure the rights.

3. Students will be introduced to a new set of ideas and their socio-historical

developments.
4. Students will come to understand their roles as social beings to defend their personal
rights as well as rights of their fellow beings.

Unit Contents

• History of International Human Rights and Gender Movements,

Conventions and Agencies
• Human Rights Violation and their Redressal
1
• Literature and Human Rights
• Gender Rights Violation and their Redressal
• Gender and Literature

• Anna Bhau Sathe: “Gold from the Grave”

2 • A Film Text Related to Human Rights (to be prescribed by the
concerned teacher)
• Mahasweta Devi – ‘Draupadi’
3 • A Film Text Related to Gender (to be prescribed by the concerned
teacher)

Course Type:
Course Title: English Communication
AEC
Course Code:
Credit: 4
UCCUGAEC1102

Course Description:
This course provides a foundational understanding of communication, encompassing
various writing activities. It covers the fundamentals of different types and modes of
communication within diverse social contexts. Writing exercises, such as letter writing, CV
writing, report writing, and email writing, introduce structural comprehension and their
application across various fields. Additionally, the course addresses different forms of

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official and social communication, their barriers, and introduces students to basic verbal
and analytical reasoning.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to learn the basic foundation of communication.
2. Students will be able to understand the different and application of different types of
communication.
3. Students will develop strong writing skills for their future endeavors.
4. Students will also develop their cognitive, verbal and analytical reasoning skills for
their personal academic and professional exploration.

Unit Contents

Monologue, Dialogue, Group Discussion, Effective

1
Communication/Mis-communication, Interview

2 Comprehension, Summary, Paraphrasing, Precis Writing

Writing Reports, CV Writing, Writing Emails, Correspondence:

3
Personal, Official & Business

4 Verbal Reasoning and Analytical Reasoning

Course Type:
Course Title: Soft Skills
SEC
Course Code:
Credit: 3
ENGUGSEC1101

Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to and comprehensive understanding of soft skills as
a highly desired skill set. It offers a detailed examination of various academic and
corporate soft skills, imparting essential knowledge to students. By introducing soft skills,
the course enables students to develop and enhance their personal competencies. It
efficiently focuses on different types of skill sets, their development, and their application

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across various professional fields. Additionally, the course includes leadership and
adaptability skills, broadening students’ critical and practical capabilities to enhance their
employability.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to develop teamwork skills and situation-management skills.
2. Students will be able to understand and develop necessary soft skills to enhance their
employability.
3. Students will come to know about the socio-cultural and professional etiquettes.
4. Students will develop their cognitive intelligence and sharpen their problem solving
and situation-handling skills.

Unit Contents

1 Teamwork, Emotional Intelligence

Employability Skills, Learning skills (attitude, aptitude, motivation,

2
confidence)

Workplace Etiquette, Adaptability, Leadership, Problem Solving

3
Skills

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 SEMESTER: II

Course Type: Course Title: History of English Literature-II:1701

Core AD to the Present
Course Code:
Credit: 4
ENGUGMCC1203

Course Description:
Spanning four units, this course encompasses three centuries of English literary history,
beginning from the Augustan Age (1701-1745) to the present time. It deals with the
development of different literary forms, formation literary movements, theories and ideas
in English literature. This course discusses different writers from each era, introducing the
students to the diversity of English literature.

Course Outcome:
1.Students will be able to understand the influence of major social events on literature
and vice versa.
2. Students will be able to understand the journey of English literature from oral
tradition to the written format.
3. Students will come to know about the socio-political structure and hierarchy of Great
Britain of Renaissance and Restoration period.
4. Students will learn to read the change in the socio-cultural perspectives of Renaissance
and Restoration populace which gradually shaped the literature and culture.

Unit Contents
1 Augustan Age and Transition Period
2 Romantic Age
3 Victorian Age
4 Twentieth Century Literature

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 Course Type: Course Title: An Introduction to the Study of English
Core Language
Course Code:
Credit: 4
ENGUGMCC1204

Course Description:
This course offers a fundamental knowledge of the study of English language. This course
will introduce the students to the idea of language, different classifications of language and
it's role in communication. The students will get a deeper knowledge of the phonetics,
syntax and the influences of different languages on English from this course, which will
strengthen their grip on English language, thereby, helping them to have better linguistic
skills.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will get a basic concept of various components of language and its role in
communication.
2. Students will learn about the various language families and the genealogy and
topology of languages.
3. Students will come to know about the influences of different languages and the
influences of canonical texts and authors on English language.
4. Students will learn the morphology, syntax, and phonetical structures of the English
language.

Unit Contents
1 Phonetics and Phonology

2 Morphology
3 Syntax
4 Sociolinguistics

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 Curse Type:
Course Title: History of English Literature-II:1701
Minor AD to the Present
Course Code:
Credit: 4
ENGUGMIN1202

Course Description:
Spanning four units, this course encompasses three centuries of English literary history,
beginning from the Augustan Age (1701-1745) to the present time. It deals with the
development of different literary forms, formation literary movements, theories and ideas
in English literature. This course discusses different writers from each era, introducing the
students to the diversity of English literature.

Course Outcome:
1.Students will be able to understand the influence of major social events on literature
and vice versa.
2. Students will be able to understand the journey of English literature from oral
tradition to the written format.
3. Students will come to know about the socio-political structure and hierarchy of Great
Britain of Renaissance and Restoration period.
4. Students will learn to read the change in the socio-cultural perspectives of Renaissance
and Restoration populace which gradually shaped the literature and culture.

Unit Contents
1 Augustan Age and Transition Period
2 Romantic Age
3 Victorian Age
4 Twentieth Century Literature

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 Course Type:
Course Title: Arabic and Islamic Studies
Multidisciplinary
Course Code:
Credit: 3
ENGUGMDC1102
Unit Contents
1
Contents to be provided by the University
2
3

Course Type:
Course Title: Technical Writing
SEC
Course Code:
ENGUGSEC1202 Credit: 3

Course Description:
This course will introduce the students to different types of formal and informal writings.
It will help them understand the fundamental differences of speech and writing and help
them increase their technical writing skills such as, linguistic unity, cohesion and
coherence, descriptive writing, argumentative writing etc. Enhancing their technical
writing skills will help them further in their future careers.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will learn the linguistic differences between the language used in speech and
the language used in writing.
2. Students will understand the concepts of formal and informal writing.
3. Students will develop various writing skills, including descriptive, narrative, and
argumentative writing.
4. They will learn to write formal writings, such as reports, letters, notices,
memorandums, agendas, etc.

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 Unit Contents

Communication: Language and communication, differences between

1 speech and writing, distinct features of speech, distinct features of
writing.

Writing Skills: Selection of topic, thesis statement, developing the

thesis introductory, developmental, transitional and concluding
2 paragraphs, linguistic unity, coherence and cohesion, descriptive,
narrative, expository and argumentative writing/Writing a Term Paper

Technical Writing: Scientific and technical subjects; formal and

informal writings; formal writings/reports, handbooks, manuals,
3
letters, memorandum, notices, agenda, minutes; common errors to be
avoided

Course Type:
Course Title: Understanding India
VAC
Course Code:
Credit: 4
UCCUGVAC1202
Unit Contents
1
2 Contents to be provided by the University
3
4

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 UG SECOND YEAR

SEMESTER: III

Course Type: British Literature: Medieval to

Major/Core Commonwealth Period

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC2305 Credit: 4

Course Description: This course introduces English literary writings over an extensive period
from the Medieval age to the age of Commonwealth. Divided into four units, the content moves
from the poetry of the age of Chaucer through the literary writings of the Elizabethan age to the
Commonwealth age. The social, political, and cultural background of the texts is explored through
the representative writers of the ages. The prescribed texts are remarkable not only for their literary
significance but also in defining the sensibilities of the afore-mentioned ages. The course will also
help in situating the different tendencies and patterns of these periods in the context of subsequent
literary and cultural developments.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to comprehend the content of the texts representing major cultural
movements like the Renaissance.

2. They will develop an extensive array of knowledge about the varied literary tendencies

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and patterns that emerged and developed throughout these ages like ‘morality play’,
‘utopian literature’, ‘metaphysical poetry’.

3. They will have a considerable grasp on the significance of great literary figures like
Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Milton who dominated the literary scenes of
their respective ages.

4. They will be able to analyze and reflect on whether the texts contribute to the addition or
development of socio-political tendencies of the respective ages.

5. The texts will also enable the students to create a knowledge base of the evolution and
development of English Language through these ages.

UNIT CONTENTS
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (Selection)
UNIT 1
Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale (Selection)/The Wife of Bath's Prologue

Poetry:
Sidney: Selections
Edmund Spenser: Selections
William Shakespeare: Selections
UNIT 2
John Donne: Selections
Andrew Marvell: Selections
Prose:
Francis Bacon: Selections

The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1-4, The Gospel according to St. Luke,
chaps. 1- 7 and 22-4.
UNIT 3
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book-I

Shakespeare: Macbeth / Othello

UNIT 4 Shakespeare: `Twelfth Night/ A Midsummer Night's Dream
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus / Edward II

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 Course Type: British Literature: Neoclassical
Major/Core Age

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC2306 Credit: 4

Course Description:
The course introduces the socio-political and literary scenes of the Neoclassical age in relation
to English literature. The four sections of the course content extend from the Restoration age
through the Augustan period to the Pre-romantic age, all of which come under the corpus of
Neoclassical period. Considering the rich and varied tapestry of literary developments during
this epoch, attempts have been made to incorporate representative texts including poetry,
periodical essays, memoirs and drama. The course sets the stage for understanding literary
development in the subsequent age by including poets like Thomas Gray and James Thomson
demarcating the Age of Transition in British Poetry from the (neo) classicism to romanticism.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to comprehend the significance of the age in which writers turn to
classical ideals for literary inspiration.

2. They will be able to contextualize texts to understand their literary, aesthetic, and social
significance.

3. Learners will become acquainted with major satirical works that emerged during this
time in different forms, viz. ‘','mock epic’, ‘picaresque novel’, ‘comedy of manners', etc.

4. They will be able to identify major literary figures like John Dryden, Alexander Pope,
Jonathan Swift, etc. and their writings, which were representative of the age’s demand for
morality, structure, and decorum.

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UNIT CONTENTS
John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe/ Absalom and Achitophel
(Selections)
UNIT 1 Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

Thomas Gray: 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard',

UNIT 2 Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Book I and II)

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Eliza Haywood: Fantomina

Aphra Behn: The Rover

UNIT 3 R. B. Sheridan: The School for Scandal/ The Rivals

Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: The Spectator Papers

(Selections)
UNIT 4
John Dryden: "A Discourse Concerning the Origin and
Progress of Satire" (Selections)

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 British Literature: Medieval to
Course Type: Minor
Commonwealth Period

Course Code:
ENGUGMIN2303 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course introduces English literary writings over an extensive period from the Medieval age
to the age of Commonwealth. Divided into four units, the content moves from the poetry of the
age of Chaucer through the literary writings of the Elizabethan age to the Commonwealth age.
The social, political and cultural background of the texts is explored through the representative
writers of the ages. These writings are remarkable not only for their literary significance but also
in defining the sensibilities of the afore-mentioned ages. The course will also help in situating
the different tendencies and patterns of these periods in the context of subsequent literature and
culture.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to comprehend the content of the texts representing major cultural
movements like the Renaissance.

2. They will develop an extensive array of knowledge about the varied literary tendencies
and patterns that emerged and developed throughout these ages like ‘morality play’,
‘utopian literature’, ‘metaphysical poetry’.

3. They will be able to grasp the significance of great literary figures like Geoffrey
Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Milton who dominated the literary scenes of their
respective ages.

4. They will be able to understand whether the texts contribute to the addition or
development of socio-political tendencies of the respective ages.

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5. The texts will also enable the students to understand the evolution and development of
English Language through these ages.

UNIT CONTENTS
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
(Selection)
UNIT 1
Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale (Selection)/The Wife of
Bath's Prologue

Poetry:
Sidney: Selections
Edmund Spenser: Selections
William Shakespeare: Selections
UNIT 2 John Donne: Selections
Andrew Marvell: Selections

Prose:
Francis Bacon: Selections

The Holy Bible, Genesis, chaps. 1-4, The Gospel according to

St. Luke, chaps. 1- 7 and 22-4.
UNIT 3
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book-I

Shakespeare: Macbeth / Othello

Shakespeare: `Twelfth Night/ A Midsummer Night's Dream
UNIT 4
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus / Edward II

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Course Type:
Literature and Women Empowerment in India
Multidisciplinary

Course Code:
ENGUGMDC2303
Credit: 3

Course Description:
Consisting of three units, this course includes an introduction to women’s writing in Pre and
Post-Independence India. The texts shall allow the learners to explore the lives of Indian women
over a vast period of time and to illuminate the historical trajectory of Indian women's literature.
The intersections of other social factors like religion and caste that highlight the experience of
minority women are also reflected in the course content.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to locate and understand the beginnings of women's resistance
against social evils and trace the history of the rise of women’s voice against patriarchal
practices in Indian society.

2. Students will have insight into the working of socio-political factors that contributed to
the emergence of women’s writing in India.

3. Students will be able to conceive a comparative mode of exploring the diversity in lived
experiences represented in the writings of Indian women, from multiple social and
religious backgrounds, such as Muslim Women’s writings and Dalit Women’s writings.

4. The great variety of women’s writings that include autobiography, memoirs, essays,
and novels will enable the students to appreciate the diverse literary practices that have
flourished in Indian Women’s Writings.

5. Students will also come to know the impacts of women’s writings in deconstructing the
established structure of Indian patriarchal society.

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 UNIT CONTENTS

Background and issues: Women's Rights in India and

Women's Writing
Women Writing in India, Vol 1: Introduction
UNIT 1
Binodini Dasi: Amar Katha (My Story)
Cornelia Sorabji: Between the Twilights Being: Studies of
Indian Women by one of themselves

Muslim Women's Writings:

Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain: Sultana’s Dream

UNIT 2 Ismat Chughtai: “Amar Bel” (“The Eternal Vine”) /Quilt and
Other Stories (Selections)
Rashid Jahan: "Woh" ("That One")

Dalit Women’s Writings

UNIT 3 Baby Kamble: Jina Amucha (Our Wretched Lives)

Bama Faustina Soosairaj: Karukku

Course Type: SEC Business Communication

Course Code:
ENGUGSEC2303 Credit: 3

Course Description:
The course provides an introduction to the essentials of business communication, which involves
both theory and practice. It also incorporates necessary skills in academic writing, including

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citations and references or use of bibliographical and research tools. In order to hone the speaking
capability of the students in the English language, the course endeavors to teach spoken English
for business communication and to deliver oral presentations. For effective written
communication, the curriculum has also included lectures on agendas and minutes of meetings,
business letters, memos, notices, e-correspondence, etc.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to effectively communicate in a professional set up through
various mediums including oral and written.

2. They will be able to conduct research pertinent to business topics while proficiently
using citation and bibliographical tools.
3. The students shall acquire enhanced presentation and public speaking abilities of the
students as they will learn to speak with clarity, conciseness, fluency, and confidence.

4. The students will become capable of preparing official or business documents including
write-ups related to projects, on-field reports, etc.

UNIT CONTENTS

• Introduction to the essentials of Business

Communication: Theory and practice

• Citing references, and using bibliographical and

research Tools
UNIT 1
• Spoken English for business communication (Viva
for internal assessment)

• Making oral presentations (Viva for internal

assessment)

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 • Writing a project report: Writing reports on field
work/visits to industries, business concerns, etc.
/business negotiations.

• Summarizing annual reports of companies

UNIT 2
• Writing agendas and minutes of meetings,

• Business letters, memos, notices

• E-correspondence

• Spoken English for Business Communication

UNIT 3 • Making Oral Presentations

• Mock Interview

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 SEMESTER IV

Course Type: Major British Literature: Romantic Period

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC2407 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course seeks to provide a comprehensive knowledge base for the poets and writers of the
Romantic Period who broke away from the rigid structures of the previous century. The
prescribed texts provide an extensive coverage of the experiments in new literary forms and
genres. It reflects upon the ways in which reason and order gave way to the celebration of
emotion, imagination, and individualism. It includes representative works and authors of both
fiction and non-fiction.

Course Outcome:
1. Learners will be able to recognize that nature is seen not just as a backdrop for human
activity, but as a source of beauty, inspiration, and spiritual renewal.

2. Students will have a detailed comprehension of the romantic writers’ faith in the poetic
philosophy of the power of imagination and deep emotion.

3. Learners will also be able to identify and analyze the romantic writers’ frequent engagement
with terror, mystery, romance, and chivalry of the medieval period.

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4. The cultural transformations resulting from to the epoch-making events like French
Revolution, Industrialization and the rise of the British empire shall become comprehensible to
the students.

5. The student shall a taste of diverse literary practices through the knowledge of great variety
of literary types that include gothic fiction, romantic novel or the novel of manners which
flourished in this period.

UNIT CONTENTS

William Blake: Selections from Songs of Innocence and

Songs of Experience
UNIT 1 William Wordsworth: Selections
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selections
Charlotte Smith: Selections

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selections

John Keats: Selections
UNIT 2
George G. Byron: Selections
Felicia Hemans: Selections

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

UNIT 3
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice/ Sense and Sensibility

Charles Lamb: Selections

Thomas De Quincey: Selections
UNIT 4
William Hazlitt: Selections

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 Course Type: Major British Literature: Victorian Period

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC2408 Credit: 4

Course Description:
It introduces the age with the socio-political and literary background along with detailed study
of representative texts from the Victorian period with regard to English Literature. Divided into
four units, the course incorporates select poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction by prominent
literary figures, representatives of major literary movements or areas in the Victorian Period.
The course content shall also allow an understanding of the ways in which the literary trends of
the period anticipated the cultural and political transformations of the twentieth century.

Course Outcome:
1. Students are able to grasp both the literary and linguistic idiosyncrasies of the texts in
nineteenth century England.

2. They would develop further mastery over the historical and political transformations of
the country and the community.

3. The learners acquire a significant knowledge base about the evolution and development
of writing style and literary forms like ‘Curtail Sonnet’, ‘Dramatic Monologues’ etc. in
English Literature for future professional purposes.

4. They will be able to comprehend how the texts contribute to the building of the major
tendencies and movements like ‘Oxford Movement’, ‘Pre-Raphaelites’ and Darwin’s
Theory of Evaluation in Literature and culture.

5. Students will also have insights into the gradual visibility of women authors within the
domain of literary writings.

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UNIT CONTENTS

Alfred Tennyson: Selections

Robert Browning: Selections

UNIT 1 Mathew Arnold: Selections

G. M. Hopkins: Selections
Christina Rossetti: Selections
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selections

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

UNIT 2 Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

George Eliot: Middlemarch / Mill on the Floss

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations / David Copperfield

UNIT 3 Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd / The Return
of the Native

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Ernest

John Ruskin: 'Unto the Last' / The Seven Lamps of
UNIT 4
Architecture (Selections)
Willkie Collins: After Dark (Selections)

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 Course Type: Major
Indian Classical Literature

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC2409 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course comprises four units and aims to introduce the students to the Indian Classical
Literature. It includes the representative works and authors of both Vedic and Post-Vedic period.
This paper also attempts to familiarize the students with the philosophical, literary, and religious
aspects of ancient Indian literature.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will learn to appreciate the variety of genres of Indian Classical literature, e.g.,
Plays, Fable, Historical Chronicle, and Epic.

2. Students will get an insight into the history and development of oral tradition of ancient
Indian literature.

3. Students will be able to contextualize the importance of ancient wisdom in modern society.

4. The learners will acquire repertoire of knowledge on the rich supernatural machinery in the
epical traditions of the Indian Classical tradition of Mahabharata.

5. The learners will also experience the universal appeal in the dramatization of mythological
stories in plays like Kalidasa’s Abhijinanam Shakuntalam and Sudraka’s Mricchakatika.

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UNIT CONTENTS

Literature of the Vedic Period: Overview

UNIT 1 Literature of Post-Vedic Period: Overview

Nitishastra: Brief Introduction

Sahitya Shastra: Brief Introduction

The Mahabharata (Selections)

UNIT 2
The Ramayana (Selections)

Visnusarman: Panchatantra (Selections)

UNIT 3
Tales from Jataka (Selections)

Kalidasa: Abhijnanam Shakuntalam

UNIT 4
Sudraka: Mricchakatika

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 British Literature: Neoclassical
Course Type: Minor
Age
Course Code:
ENGUGMIN2404 Credit: 4

Course Description:
The course introduces the socio-political and literary scenes of the Neoclassical age in relation to
English literature. The four sections of the course content extend from the Restoration age
through the Augustan period to the Pre-romantic age, all of which come under the corpus of
Neoclassical period. Considering the rich and varied tapestry of literary developments during this
epoch, attempts have been made to incorporate representative texts including poetry, periodical
essays, memoirs and drama. The course sets the stage for understanding literary development in
the subsequent age by including poets like Thomas Gray and James Thomson demarcating the
Age of Transition in British Poetry from the (neo) classicism to romanticism.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to comprehend the significance of the age in which writers turn to
classical ideals for literary inspiration.

2. They will be able to contextualize texts to understand their literary, aesthetic, and social
significance.

3. Learners will become acquainted with major satirical works that emerged during this
time in different forms, viz. ‘','mock epic’, ‘picaresque novel’, ‘comedy of manners', etc.

4. They will be able to identify major literary figures like John Dryden, Alexander Pope,
Jonathan Swift, etc. and their writings, which were representative of the age’s demand for
morality, structure, and decorum.

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UNIT CONTENTS
John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe / Absalom and Achitophel
(Selections)
UNIT 1 Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

Thomas Gray: 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard',

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Book I and II)

UNIT 2 Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Eliza Haywood: Fantomina

Aphra Behn: The Rover

UNIT 3 R. B. Sheridan: The School for Scandal/ The Rivals
Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: The Spectator Papers

(Selections)

UNIT 4 John Dryden: "A Discourse Concerning the Origin and

Progress of Satire" (Selections)

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 UG THIRD YEAR

SEMESTER V

Course Type:
British Literature: Modern Period
Major

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC3510 Credit: 4
Course Description:
This undergraduate course delves into the works of influential modernist writers,
exploring the literary movements and styles that defined the 20th century. Through a
curated selection of poems, novels, short stories, essays, and plays, students will engage
with the innovative techniques, themes, and ideas that characterized this pivotal era in
literary history.

Course Outcome:

1. This course will help the students understand and negotiate the difficult and
complex existence of human beings in relation to the society and the world around
them.
2. This course will also help the students make sense of the various changes and
experiments that were adopted by the authors of the modern period.
3. Students will be able to relate the developments in various epistemological
explorations in science, sociology and anthropology to the literary and cultural
expressions of modern period that had shaped a world view completely different
from the Victorian era.

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UNIT CONTENTS
W. B. Yeats: Selections
T. S. Eliot: Selections
Wilfred Owen: Selections
UNIT 1
W H Auden: Selections
Dylan Thomas: Selections

Jospeh Conrad: The Heart of Darkness/Lord Jim

D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers / Rainbow

UNIT 2 Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway/ To The Lighthouse

James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

E. M. Forster: A Passage to India

Katherine Mansfield: Select Short Stories

James Joyce: Select Short Stories
Somerset Maugham: Select Short Stories

UNIT 3 Joseph Conrad: Select Short Stories

Essays:
T.S. Eliot: ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’
Virginia Woolf: "Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown"

G.B. Shaw: Arms and the Man

UNIT 4
J. M. Synge: Riders to the Sea

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 Course Type: Major British Literature: Post-1945

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC3511 Credit: 4
Course Description:

This course delves into the diverse and vibrant literary landscape of post-war Britain,
exploring the key themes, styles, and movements that defined this era. Through a selection
of novels, poetry, plays, and essays, we will examine the ways in which British writers
responded to the social, political, and cultural changes of the time.

Course Outcome:

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

1. Analyze literary responses to historical events, including World War II, the Cold War,
and social change.

2. Identify and explain key literary movements, such as existentialism, absurdism,

feminism, and postmodernism.

3. Evaluate the contributions of major British writers, including poets, novelists,

playwrights, and essayists.

4. Demonstrate close reading skills, analyzing language, structure, and themes in various
texts.

5. Recognize the cultural and historical contexts that shaped British literature during this
period.

6. Write critically and creatively, producing clear, well-argued essays and creative writing
pieces.

7. Understand the significance of British literature in the broader context of Western

literary traditions.

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8. Engage in scholarly discussion, participating in informed debates about literary texts
and their contexts.

UNIT CONTENTS
Phillip Larkin: Selections
Ted Hughes: Selections
UNIT 1
Seamus Heaney: Selections
Carol Anne Duffy: Selections

George Orwell: 1984

William Golding: The Lord of the Flies
UNIT 2
John Fowles: The French Lieutenants’ Woman
Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party
UNIT 3
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Edward Bond: Saved/ Lear

Bertrand Russel: Selection of Essays

Angela Carter: Selection of Essays
UNIT 4
Muriel Spark: Selection of Short Stories
Elizabeth Bowen: Selection of Short Stories

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 Course Type: Major Literary Criticism

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC3512 Credit: 4
Course Description:

This course explores the development of literary criticism from ancient to modern times.
Through a selection of key texts, we will examine the major concepts, debates, and
movements that have shaped the way we think about literature and its role in society.

Course Outcome:

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a deep understanding of key concepts and movements in literary theory

and criticism.

2. Analyze and interpret complex theoretical texts and apply critical approaches to literary
works.

3. Evaluate the historical and cultural contexts of literary theory and criticism.

4. Recognize the relationships between literature, culture, and society.

5. Develop close reading and critical thinking skills.

6. Write clearly and persuasively about literary theory and criticism.

7. Engage in informed discussions about literary theory and its applications.

8. Apply theoretical concepts to literary texts and cultural phenomena.

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UNIT CONTENTS
Plato: The Republic (Selections)
Aristotle: Poetics (Selections)
UNIT 1
Horace: Ars Poetica (Selections)
Longinus: On the Sublime (Selections)

Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry

John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesie
UNIT 2
William Wordsworth: "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads"
Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Selections)

Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy (Selections) /

"The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" / “The
Study of Poetry”

Henry James: "The Art of Fiction"

UNIT 3
T. S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent"/ "The
Metaphysical Poets" / “Hamlet and His Problems”

Virginia Woolf: "Modern Fiction"

I. A. Richards: "The Four Kinds of Meaning" /

Principles of Literary Criticism (Selections)
Cleanth Brooks: "The Language of Paradox" / “The
UNIT 4
Heresy of Paraphrase”
Lionel Trilling: "The Sense of the Past"
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (Selections)

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 Course Type: Minor British Literature: Romantic Period

Course Code:
ENGUGMIN3505 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course explores the literature and culture of the Romantic era in Britain, a time of
revolution, social change, and intellectual ferment. Through a diverse range of texts,
including poetry, novels, essays, and slave narratives, we will examine the key themes and
ideas of Romanticism, such as imagination, emotion, nature, beauty and spontaneity in art
and subjective experiences and expressions.

Course Outcome:

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

1. Analyze key themes and ideas of Romantic literature, including nature, imagination, and
the human condition.

2. Understand the historical and cultural contexts of Romanticism, including the French
Revolution, industrialization, and slavery.

3. Evaluate the contributions of major Romantic writers, including poets, novelists, and
essayists.

4. Recognize the significance of women writers and their contributions to Romantic

literature.

5. Develop close reading skills through engagement with complex literary texts.

6. Write critically and analytically about literary works and their contexts.

7. Engage in informed discussions about literary and cultural debates of the Romantic era.

8. Understand the legacy of Romanticism in shaping modern literature and culture.

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 UNIT CONTENTS

William Blake: Selections from Songs of Innocence and

Songs of Experience

William Wordsworth: Selections

UNIT 1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selections

Charlotte Smith: Selections

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selections

John Keats: Selections

UNIT 2
George G. Byron: Selections

Felicia Hemans: Selections

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

UNIT 3
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice/ Sense and
Sensibility

Charles Lamb: Selections

UNIT 4
Thomas De Quincey: Selections

William Hazlitt: Selections

Course Type: SIP SIP-I

Course Code: UCCUGSIP3501

Credit: 4

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 SEMESTER VI

Course Type: Major Literary Theory-I

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC3613 Credit: 4

Course Details:

This course delves into the diverse and complex landscape of literary theory, exploring the
key movements, concepts, and debates that have shaped the field from the 20th century to
the present. Students will engage with a range of theoretical approaches, from Structuralism
and Poststructuralism to Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Ecocriticism, analyzing their
applications, implications, and interactions.

Course Outcome:

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the key literary theories and critical movements
of the 20th and 21st centuries.
2. Analyze and apply theoretical concepts to literary texts and cultural phenomena.
3. Evaluate the strengths and limitations of different theoretical perspectives.
4. Develop close reading and critical thinking skills through engagement with complex
literary and theoretical texts.
5. Recognize the intersections and tensions between different theoretical approaches.
6. Engage in informed discussions about literary theory.
7. Write critically and analytically about literary theory and its applications.
8. Develop a nuanced understanding of the complex and dynamic field of literary theory.

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UNIT CONTENTS

Ferdinand de Saussure: From Courses in General Linguistics

Jonathan Culler: “The Linguistic Foundation”
Roman Jakobson: "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles"/ “Two Aspects of
Language”
UNIT 1
Roland Barthes: Selection from Mythologies
Boris Eichenbaum: “The Formal Method”
Viktor Shklovsky: “Art as Technique”
Mikhail Bakhtin: “From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse”

Roland Barthes: “The Death of the Author”

Jacques Derrida: “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human
UNIT 2 Sciences”/ “Difference” / “Of Hospitality”
Michel Foucault: “What is an Author?”

Julia Kristeva: Selections from Desire in Language

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Chandra Talpade Mohanty: “Under Western Eyes Revisited: Feminist
Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles”
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: Selections from The Mad Woman in the
UNIT 3
Attic
Helene Cixous: “The Laugh of the Medusa”
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
bell hooks: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center/Ain’t I a Woman?
Saba Mahmood: Politics of Piety

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 Wolfgang Iser: ―The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach /
Selections from The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response

Stanley Fish: “Interpreting the Variorum”/ “Is There a Text in This Class”

Hans-Robert Jauss: Selection from Toward an Aesthetic of Reception.

UNIT 4
Norman Holland: “Unity Identity Text Self”

Jacques Lacan: The Instance of the Letter In the Unconscious or Reason

Since Freud/ The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I as Revealed in
Psychoanalytic Experience

Nancy Chodorow: “Pre-Oedipal Gender Configurations

Course Type: Major Indian Writing in English

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC3614 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course delves into the rich and diverse landscape of Indian literature, spanning from
the colonial era to the present day. Through a selection of texts from various genres,
including poetry, novels, plays, and essays, we will explore the ways in which Indian
writers have responded to historical events, cultural traditions, and social changes.

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Course Outcome:

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of Indian
literature from colonial to contemporary times.
2. Analyze and interpret key texts and authors in Indian literature, recognizing their
contributions and significance.
3. Evaluate the intersections and tensions between different literary movements, styles,
and themes in Indian writing.
4. Develop close reading and critical thinking skills through engagement with complex
literary texts.
5. Recognize the role of literature in reflecting and shaping Indian identity, culture, and
history.
6. Engage in informed discussions about Indian literature and its relevance to
contemporary issues and concerns.
7. Write critically and analytically about Indian literature and its significance.
8. Appreciate the diversity and richness of Indian literature, including its various
languages, regions, and genres.

UNIT CONTENTS
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio: Selections
Toru Dutt: Selections
Sarojini Naidu: Selections
Rabindranath Tagore: Selections

UNIT 1 A.K. Ramanujan: Selections

Kamala Das: Selections
Mamang Dai: Selections
Jayanta Mahapatra: Selections
Nissim Ezekiel: Selections

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 Raja Rao: Kanthapura
Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day/ Cry, The Peacock
UNIT 2
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines / The Calcutta Chromosome
Rabindranath Tagore: Chitra / The Red Oleanders
Girish Karnad: Tughlaq /Hayavadana

UNIT 3 Mahesh Dattani: Final Solutions / Tara

Poile Sengupta: Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni /
Mangalam

Iqbalunnisa Hussain: Selections from Changing India: A Muslim

Woman Speaks
R. K. Narayan: Selections from Short Stories
UNIT 4
Satyajit Ray: Selections from Short Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri: Selections from Interpreter of Maladies
Temsula Ao: Selections from These Hills Called Home

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 Course Type:
American Literature
Major

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC3615 Credit: 4
Course Description:
This course delves into the rich and diverse landscape of American literature, spanning
from the 19th century to the present day. Through a selection of texts from various genres,
including poetry, novels, plays, and essays, we will explore the ways in which American
writers have reflected and shaped the country's history, culture, and identity.

Course Outcome:
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of American
literature from the 19th century to the present day.
2. Analyze and interpret key texts and authors in American literature, recognizing their
contributions and significance.
3. Evaluate the intersections and tensions between different literary movements, styles,
and themes in American writing.
4. Develop close reading and critical thinking skills through engagement with complex
literary texts.
5. Recognize the role of literature in reflecting and shaping American identity, culture, and
history.
6. Engage in informed discussions about American literature and its relevance to
contemporary issues and concerns.
7. Write critically and analytically about American literature and its significance.
8. Appreciate the diversity and richness of American literature, including its various
genres, styles, and voices.
9. Identify and explain the major literary movements and styles in American literature,
such as Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.
10. Apply critical theories and perspectives to the analysis of American literary texts.

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UNIT CONTENTS
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selections
Walt Whitman: Selections
Emily Dickinson: Selections
Robert Frost: Selections
Maya Angelou: Selections
UNIT 1
Sylvia Plath: Selections
Allen Ginsberg: Selections
Langston Hughes: Selections
Bob Dylan: Selections

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter / The House of the

Seven Gables
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventure
of Tom Sawyer

UNIT 2 Herman Melville: Moby Dick / Billy Budd, Sailor

Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises / The Old Man and the
Sea
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying
Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye / Beloved

Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie / A Streetcar

Named Desire

UNIT 3 Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman /All My Sons

Eugene O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night /Mourning
Becomes Electra
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun

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 F. Scott Fitzgerald: Selections
Edgar Allen Poe: Selections
Kate Chopin: Selections
Flannery O'Connor: Selections
UNIT 4
Willa Cather: Selections
J. D. Salinger: Selections
Joyce Carol Oates: Selections
Annie Proulx: Selections

Course Type: Core

SCIENCE FICTION AND DETECTIVE FICTION
DSE

Course Code:
ENGUGMDSE601A Credit: 4
Course Description:
The course consists of four units and deal with two important areas of popular culture. While
the first unit brings into the fore the early practitioners of science fiction, the second one deals
with the more recent works. The third unit would make students familiar with the early greats
of detective fiction and the fourth one brings into focus the recent trends in thrillers and other
genre-bending works. The course intends to make students look into the complexity of human
psyche that leads to crimes and criminality and also into the role played by society in shaping
the crimes and vice-versa.

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Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to understand the politics behind the making of crime and criminal
world.
2. The course will teach the students to read human predicament in the light of
psychoanalysis and other recent developments.
3. This course will help the students understand the nuances of popular culture and how it
alters the perception of human behaviour with the passage of time.

UNIT CONTENTS

R. L. Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

H. G. Wells: The Time Machine

UNIT 1 Isaac Asimov: I, Robot

Frank Herbert: Dune
P.K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

William Gibson: Neuromancer

Marge Piercy: He, She and It

UNIT 2 Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash

Greg Egan: Diaspora
Jeff Vandermeer: Annihilation

Arthur C. Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Selection)

Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay: Selection from Detective Byomkesh
UNIT 3
Bakshi
John Le Carre: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Ruth Rendell: Selection from 'Inspector Wexford' Series of Novels

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 Amanda Cross: The James Joyce Murder
Rudolfo Anaya: Selection from 'Sonny Baca' Mystery Series

UNIT 4 Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Selection from "Lupe Solano Series"

Sally Morgan: My Place
Sue Grafton: Selection from "Alphabet Series"

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NEP SYLLABUS: 4 YEAR HONOURS WITH RESEARCH

UG THIRD YEAR

SEMESTER VI

Course Type: Core

Literature and Cinema
DSE

Course Code:
ENGUGMDSE601B Credit: 4
Course Description:
The four units of the course are mutually constitutive and the aim is to familiarize the students
with the relation between films and literature. While the first unit prepares the theoretical
framework the second one offers insight into the adaptation of some of the important literary
texts from the western canon. The third unit focuses on films and literary texts from India. The
fourth unit attempts comparative readings of literary texts adopted into films.

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Course Outcome:

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

1. This course will help the students gain in-depth knowledge in the relation between films
and literary texts.
2. The course will be able to broaden the area of appreciation of the students to include
different cultural domains.
3. The course will make the students more ready for the professional world.

UNIT CONTENTS

• Invention of the Movies & Birth of the Filmmaking Industry

• Brief History till Present Era, Indian film Industry: Brief Idea
• Gaze and Politics of Representations; Narrative Techniques
• Theories of Adaptation; Transformation and Transposition’
• Hollywood and ‘Bollywood’; The ‘Two Ways of Seeing’;
Adaptation as Interpretation
UNIT 1
Gaze Theory and Laura Mulvey: "Visual Pleasure and Narrative
Cinema"
Christian Metz: Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema
(Selections)
James Monaco: ‘The language of film: signs and syntax’, in How To
Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media & Multimedia

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and its adaptations:

Romeo & Juliet (1968; dir. Franco Zeffirelli, Paramount); and Romeo
+ Juliet (1996; dir. Baz Luhrmann, 20th Century Fox)

UNIT 2 Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love, and its adaptation: From
Russia with Love (1963; dir. Terence Young, Eon Productions).

William Shakespeare: Macbeth and its adaptation Maqbool

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 Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man and its adaptation Earth (1998;
dir. Deepa Mehta, Cracking the Earth Films Incorp.)

Amrita Pritam's Pinjarand its adaptation Pinjar (2003; dir. C.P.

Dwivedi, Lucky Star Entertainment).
UNIT 3
E.M.Forster: A Passage to India + Adaptation by David Lean

Bibhuti Bhusan Bandyopadhyay's Pather Panchali and its

Adaptation by Satyajit Ray

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Orson Welles’s

Citizen Kane: A Comparative Study

Elie Wisel’s Night and Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful: A

Comparative Study
UNIT 4
Khushwant Singh’s Train To Pakistan and M.S.Sathyu’s Garm
Hawa: A Comparative Study

Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita In Tehran and Jafar Panahis’s

Offside: A Comparative Study

Course Type:
Core DSE Literature of the Indian Diaspora

Course Code:
ENGUGMDSE601C Credit: 4
Course Description:
This course explores the vibrant literary landscape of the Indian diaspora, featuring works
by writers of Indian origin living outside of India. Through a selection of novels, poetry,
plays, and short stories, we will examine the ways in which these writers reflect on identity,
culture, belonging, and social justice in their works.

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Course Outcome:

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the Indian
diaspora.
2. Analyze and interpret key texts and authors in Indian diasporic literature, recognizing
their contributions and significance.
3. Evaluate the intersections and tensions between different literary styles and themes in
Indian diasporic writing.
4. Develop close reading and critical thinking skills through engagement with complex
literary texts.
5. Recognize the role of literature in reflecting and shaping the Indian diasporic experience.
6. Engage in informed discussions about the Indian diaspora and its representation in
literature.
7. Write critically and analytically about Indian diasporic literature and its significance.
8. Appreciate the diversity and richness of Indian diasporic literature, including its various
genres, styles, and voices.
9. Identify and explain the major themes and concerns of Indian diasporic literature, such as
identity, belonging, culture, and social justice.
10. Apply critical theories and perspectives to the analysis of Indian diasporic literary texts.

UNIT CONTENTS
Meena Alexander: Selections
Sudeep Sen: Selections
Aimee Nezhukumutathil: Selections
UNIT 1
Kirun Kapur: Selections
Daljit Nagra: Selections
Shanta Acharya: Selections

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 VS Naipaul: Mimic Men
Shani Mootoo: Valmiki’s Daughter / Cereus Blooms at Night
Bharati Mukherjee: Wife/ Jasmine/ Desirable Daughters
Meera Syal: Anita and Me
UNIT 2
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake
M. G. Vassanji: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
Shauna Singh Baldwin: The Tiger Claw

Uma Parameswaran: Rootless But Green are the Boulevard Trees

Muthal Naidoo: Flight from the Mahabarath

UNIT 3 Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti: A Kind of People

Tanika Gupta: White Boy
Rahul Varma: The Land Where the Trees Talk / Counter Offence

Jhumpa Lahiri: Selection of Short Stories

Salman Rushdie: Selection of Short Stories

UNIT 4 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Selection of Short Stories

Vikram Seth: Selection of Short Stories
Rohinton Mistry: Selection of Short Stories

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 Course Type: Minor British Literature: Victorian Period

Course Code:
ENGUGMIN3706 Credit: 4
Course Description:
This course delves into the rich and diverse literary landscape of the Victorian era. Through a
selection of poems, novels, and essays, we will examine the works of iconic authors such as
Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, among others. We will
explore the social, cultural, and historical contexts that shaped their writing and the ways in
which their works reflect and critique the values of their time.

Course Outcome:
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the Victorian
era.
2. Analyze and interpret key texts and authors of the Victorian period, recognizing their
contributions and significance.
3. Evaluate the intersections and tensions between different literary styles and themes in
Victorian writing.
4. Develop close reading and critical thinking skills through engagement with complex
literary texts.
5. Recognize the role of literature in reflecting and shaping the values and attitudes of the
Victorian era.
6. Engage in informed discussions about the Victorian era and its representation in literature.
7. Write critically and analytically about Victorian literature and its significance.
8. Appreciate the diversity and richness of Victorian literature, including its various genres,
styles, and voices.
9. Identify and explain the major themes and concerns of Victorian literature, such as social
class, morality, and identity.
10. Apply critical theories and perspectives to the analysis of Victorian literary texts.

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 UNIT CONTENTS
Alfred Tennyson: Selections
Robert Browning: Selections
Mathew Arnold: Selections
UNIT 1
G. M. Hopkins: Selections
Christina Rossetti: Selections
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selections

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

UNIT 2 Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

George Eliot: Middlemarch / Mill on the Floss

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations / David Copperfield

UNIT 3 Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd / The Return of
the Native

Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Ernest

John Ruskin: 'Unto the Last' / The Seven Lamps of Architecture
UNIT 4
(Selections)
Willkie Collins: After Dark (Selections)

Course Type: SIP SIP-II

Course Code:
ENGUGSIP3602 Credit: 4

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 SEMESTER VII

Course Type: Major Literary Theory-II

Course Code: ENGUGMCC4716 Credit: 4

Course Description:
The course Literary Theory -II is designed to supplement the previous reading of Literary
Theory- I. They are already familiar with emerging theoretical trends and the interdisciplinary
nature of literary and cultural theory, this course will broaden their preexisting knowledge
where they will have an opportunity to acquaint themselves with major theoretical works in
the fields of Marxism, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism,
Ecocriticism and Geocriticism. The canonical texts have been incorporated in this course to
introduce the learners to the fountainhead of these theories while the interconnectedness of
one tenet with the others will be apparent to them when they will skim through the course.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to trace the development and trends of contemporary literary and
cultural theories from 20th century onwards.

2. They will be able to comprehend the significant concepts of theories contributed by the
thinkers.

3. Students will be able to understand the significance of such concepts in changing or adding
to the main currents of thought during contemporary times.

4. Students will be able to relate the concepts of literary and cultural theories while studying

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other texts, thus understanding and appreciating intertextuality and the cross-disciplinary
nature of such theories.

UNIT CONTENTS
Edward Said: Introduction to
Orientalism/Afterword to Orientalism
Homi K. Bhabha: Selection from The Location of
Culture
UNIT 1 Frantz Fanon: Selection From Black Skin, White
Masks
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: From Decolonising the Mind
Raymond Williams: “Base and Superstructure in
Marxist Cultural Theory”
Aijaz Ahmed: In Theory (Selections)

Jurgen Habermas: From Philosophical Discourse of

Modernity
Jean Francois Lyotard: “Answering the Question:
what is postmodernism?” / Selection from The
UNIT 2
Postmodern Condition
Fredric Jameson: “The Politics of Theory:
Ideological Positions in the Postmodernism Debate”
/ Selection from Postmodernism or The Cultural
Logic of Late Capitalism
Jean Baudrillard: “Simulacra and Simulation”
Linda Hutcheon: Selection from The Politics of
Postmodernism
Ihab Hassan: “Pluralism in Postmodern
Perspective” / “The Culture of Postmodernism”

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 Stephen Greenblatt: “The Circulation of Social
Energy”
Jonathan Dollimore: Selection from Sexual
UNIT 3
Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault
Alan Sinfield: Selection from Faultlines
Hayden White: From “The Value of Narrativity in
the Representation of Reality”
Raymond Williams: Selection from Culture and
Society

Ramchandra Guha: Selections from

Environmentalism: A Global History
Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm: General
UNIT 4
Introduction from The Ecocriticism Reader:
Landmarks in Literary Ecology
Vandana Shiva: Selections from Staying Alive
Swarnalatha Rangarajan: “Engaging with Prakriti:
A Survey of Ecocritical Praxis in India”
Robert T. Tally: Geocritical Explorations

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 Course Type: Major Postcolonial Literatures

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC4717 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course aims to explore the literary works of all genre that emerge from postcolonial
societies worldwide, especially emphasizing the canonical writers belonging to Nigeria, West
Indies, Australia, and Canada. These works delve into the themes, styles, issues and cultural
implications found in literature produced in the context of decolonization and its aftermath.
The course examines texts that address different postcolonial issues such as identity, power
dynamics, hybridity, resistance, and the legacy of colonialism etc. Students will be exposed to
a variety of voices and perspectives within postcolonial literature, including those from
formerly colonized regions, diasporic communities, and marginalized groups, fostering a
deeper appreciation for the diversity within the field.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will develop a nuanced understanding of diverse cultures and perspectives
through the exploration of postcolonial literature from various regions.

2. Students will gain insight into the historical contexts that have shaped postcolonial
literature and its relevance in understanding the aftermath of colonialism.

3. Students will develop the ability to critically analyze and interpret postcolonial
literature, recognizing the ways in which these texts address and reflect issues of
colonialism, identity, race, and cultural hybridity.

4. Students will be able to compare and contrast postcolonial literature from various
regions and cultures, understanding the diverse ways in which different authors
engage with themes of colonialism and its legacies.

5. Students will understand how postcolonial literature intersects with other disciplines,
such as history, anthropology, and cultural studies, and will be able to apply
interdisciplinary approaches to their analyses.

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 6. Students will engage in reflective thinking about the ethical implications of studying
postcolonial literature, considering issues such as representation, power dynamics,
and the role of the scholar in interpreting and presenting these texts.

UNIT CONTENTS
Poetry:
Derek Walcott: Selections
Agha Shahid Ali: Selections
Edward Kamau Braithwaite: Selections
UNIT 1
Judith Wright: Selections
Oodgeroo Noonuccal: Selections
Gabriel Okara: Selections
Kofi Awoonor: Selections
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace
UNIT 2
David Malouf: An Imaginary Life / Remembering Babylon
Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient / In the Skin of a Lion
Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners
Derek Walcott: Dream on Monkey Mountain
Mustapha Matura: Playboy of the West Indies
George Ryga: The Ecstasy of Rita Joe / Grass and Wild Strawberries
UNIT 3
Jack Davis: No Sugar / The Dreamers
Ray Lawler: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Wole Soyinka: Death and the King's Horseman

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 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Selections
Bessie Head: Selections
Ama Ata Aidoo: Selections
UNIT 4 Katharine Susannah Prichard: Selections
Alice Munro: Selections
V. S. Naipaul: Selections

Course Type:
Modern Indian Writing in English Translation
Major (DSE)

Course Code:
Credit: 4
ENGUGMDS4702A

Course Description:
This course is an attempt to make the students familiar with the great diversity and depth of
Indian literature in vernacular. Reading these works in translation, to some extent, waters
down the aesthetic and other pleasures of reading great literary works. And yet the word
'translation’ does not only mean the process of translating words or text from one language
to another, but also in the wider sense the process of moving something from one place to
another. Therefore, the inclusion of translated Literary texts from diverse Indian Languages
and Cultures in this course not only augments a better knowledge of other cultures and
traditions by dispersing them far and wide but also enables learners respect the diversity
which still remains as the building block of an inclusive, socialist, secular tradition.

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Course Outcome:
1. Students will gain insight into the diverse literary traditions and cultural contexts of
various Indian regional languages, understanding how these traditions are represented in
English translations.
2. Students will explore a wide range of genres and styles within Indian literature,
appreciating the richness and diversity of themes, narratives, and forms across different
regional literatures.
3. Students will acquire knowledge of the socio-political, historical, and cultural contexts
that influence both the original works and their translations, enhancing their understanding
of how these contexts shape literary expression.
4. Students will engage in creative and critical thinking about the challenges and
possibilities of translating literary works, considering how translation affects literary
representation and cross-cultural communication.
5. Students will cultivate cultural sensitivity and awareness, understanding how literature
can both reflect and shape cultural identities and how translations can mediate cultural
differences.
UNIT CONTENTS

Background and History of Modern Indian Writing in English

Translation (The Aesthetics of Translation; Linguistic Regions and
Languages; Modernity in Indian Literature; Caste, Gender and
Resistance; Questions of Form in 20th Century Indian Literature)

Poetry:
Kabir: Selections
Rabindranath Tagore: Selections
UNIT 1
Michael Madhusudan Dutta: Meghanadvadkabya (Selections)
Amrita Pritam: Selections
K Satchidanandan: Selections
Maithilisharan Gupt: Selections
Dilip Chitre: Selections
Gulzar: Selections
Sitakant Mahapatra: Selections

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 Rajinder Singh Bedi: I Take This Woman (Ek Chadar Maili Si)
Fakir Mohan Senapati: Six Acres and a Third
Madhu Acharya Ashawadi: Mohalla (Gavaad)

UNIT 2 Perumal Murugan: One Part Woman / Poonachi

U.R. Ananthamurthy: Samaskara
Phaniswernath Renu: Maila Anchal
Indira Goswami: The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker
Gopinath Mohanty: Paraja

Dharamveer Bharati: Andha Yug

Mohan Rakesh: One Day in Ashadha
UNIT 3 Zahida Zaidi: The Far-Reaching Night
Habib Tanvir: Charandas Chor
Mahesh Elkunchwar: Garbo/Sonata
Saoli Mitra: Nathabati Anathabat (Five Lords and None a Protector)
Vijay Tendulkar: Silence! The Court is in Session

Ambai: Selections
Mahasweta Devi: Selections
Premchand: Selections

UNIT 4 Nirmal Verma: Selections

Ismat Chughtai: Selections
Kartar Singh Duggal: Selections
Krishan Chander: Selections
V.M. Basheer: Selections

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 Course Type: Major (DSE) Literature on the Partition of India

Course Code:
ENGUGMDS4702B Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course attempts to explore the historiography of partition of India through literary texts.
It includes representative works and authors of both fiction and non-fiction. The texts chosen
shall allow the examination of nationalist and imperial politics that are held to account for
the partition of British India. It will also reflect on the aftermath of partition beyond its
immediate events. A considerable range of texts that can glean the multifaceted nature of the
psychological and social trauma has been chosen to facilitate a dynamic understanding of the
history. The course also aims to acquaint the students with the various patterns of narrative
(both fictional and non-fictional) and make them aware of its social, cultural and
psychological implications.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to understand the historiography of colonialism, nationalism and
postcolonial statehood pertaining to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

2. They will be able to analyze fictional and personal narratives as alternative versions of
official policy statements.

3. Literature as lived experience would also be understood by the students as many of the
texts included have strong autobiographical traits.

4. They will be able to reflect on cultural, political issues involved in the politics of
governing diverse groups, the politics of identity, its various sources and dimensions, the
role of literature and culture, questions of memory and pain, as well as international
geopolitics.

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UNIT CONTENTS

Moniza Alvi: At the Time of Partition (Selections)

Jibananda Das: Selections
Annada Shankar Ray: Selections
Agyya: Selections
UNIT 1
Nida Fazli: Selections
Faiz Ahmad Faiz: Selections
Shivkumar Batalvi: Selections
Ahmed Faraz: Selections

Intizar Husain: Basti

Khushwant Singh: The Train to Pakistan
Jyotirmoyee Devi: River Churning: A Partition Novel

UNIT 2 Amrita Pritam: Pinjar

Sunanda Sikdar: A Life Long Ago
Kamleshwar: Kitne Pakistan (Partitions)
Krishna Sobti: A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There

Asif Currimbhoy: The Refugee

Asghar Wajahat: Jisne Lahore Nai Dekhya O Jamyai
Nai (Those who haven‘t seen Lahore haven‘t lived)
UNIT 3
Salil Sen: Notun Ihudi (The New Jew)
Sudha Bhuchar & Kristine-Landon Smith: A Tainted
Dawn

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 Sa’adat Hasan Manto: (Selections)
Manik Bandhopadhya: (Selections)
Mohan Rakesh: (Selections)
Lalithambika Antharajanam: (Selections)
Joginder Paul: (Selections)
Jahanara Imam: (Selections)
UNIT 4
Aanchal Malhotra: Remnants of a Separation: A
History of the Partition through Material Memory
(Selections)
Urvashi Butalia: The Other Side of Silence: Voices from
the Partition of India (Selections)
Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin: Borders & Boundaries
(Selections)

Course Type: Major (DSE) Dalit Literature

Course Code:
ENGUGMDS4702C Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course seeks to explore the major trends and genres in the literature written by Dalit
authors who are, after the centuries of oppression and marginalization from the mainstream
society, voicing their angst and sufferings through their writings and thereby creating a
counter-discourse to resist the dominant hierarchical strata in the society. Students will be
familiarized with Dalit Movement, Dalit Feminism and a distinctive genre Dalit
Autobiography which has become a vehicle for the Dalit authors to depict the hitherto untold

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truth of society. Through the textual study of a wide range of authors, hence, this course
explores the formation of ―Dalit Aesthetics and its complicated relationship with ―aesthetics
in literature as well as its contribution in bringing the margin into centre and revising the
canon of English Literature .

Course Outcome:
1. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of Dalit literature, including its
historical development, key themes, and significant works. They will explore how Dalit
literature reflects the experiences and struggles of marginalized communities in India.
2. Students will acquire knowledge of the socio-political and historical contexts that have
influenced the production of Dalit literature, including the impact of caste-based
discrimination and the Dalit movement.
3. Students will engage with relevant theoretical frameworks and concepts, such as Dalit
criticism, postcolonial theory, and social justice, to deepen their understanding of how Dalit
literature challenges dominant narratives and power structures.
4. Students will be able to compare Dalit literature with other literary traditions and genres,
recognizing both unique aspects and commonalities in how different literary traditions
address issues of oppression, identity, and resistance.
5. Students will critically examine how Dalit literature represents issues of caste, identity,
and social justice, and how it gives voice to marginalized and oppressed communities.

UNIT CONTENTS

Namdeo Dhasal : Selections

S. Joseph: Selections
Prathiba Jeyachandran: Selections
N. K. Hanumanthiah: Selections
UNIT 1
Poikayil Appachan : Selections
M. R. Renukumar : Selections
Satish Chandar: Selections
Daya Pawar: Selections

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 Baby Kamble: The Prisons We Broke
Bama: Karukku

UNIT 2 Sharan Kumar Limbale: The Outcaste

P. Sivakami: The Grip of Change
Manoranjan Byapari: Interrogating My Chandal Life:
An Autobiography of a Dalit

Datta Bhagat: Routes and Escape Routes / Avart

(Whirlpool)

UNIT 3 A. Santhakumar: Dreamhunt

Premanand Gajvee: Kirwant / Gandhi—Ambedkar
Usha Ganguli: Rudali (A play by a Non-Dalit Woman
Writer)

B. R. Ambedkar: Selection of Speech and Essays

Sharamkumar Limbale:Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit
Literature: History, Controversies and Considerations
(Selections)
JV Pawar: Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History
UNIT 4
(Selections)
Arjun Dangle: Selections from Poisioned Bread
Singha S P & Acharya, Eds. Selections of Short Stories
from Survival and Other Stories:Bangla Dalit Fiction in
Translation
Urmila Pawar: Selections From Motherwit

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 Course Type: Core
Research Methodology
DSE

Course Code:
ENGUGMDS4703 A Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course is designed to provide students with a basic foundation in research techniques
and methodologies essential for advanced literary studies. This course offers a
comprehensive overview of both qualitative and quantitative research methods, guiding
students through the process of developing research questions, conducting literature
reviews, and applying appropriate analytical techniques. Emphasizing critical thinking and
methodological rigor, the course prepares students to undertake their own research
projects with confidence, equipping them with the skills necessary to produce well-
structured, original academic work. Through practical exercises, theoretical discussions,
and hands-on research activities, students will learn to navigate the complexities of
literary research and contribute meaningfully to scholarly conversations in the field of
English literature.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will gain an understanding of various research methodologies used in literary
studies, including both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

2. Students will be able to formulate clear, focused, and researchable questions or

hypotheses relevant to literary studies.

3. Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct thorough literature reviews, critically
evaluating existing research and identifying gaps or areas for further investigation.

4. Students will learn to design and plan research projects effectively, including the
development of research proposals that outline objectives, methodologies, and expected
outcomes.

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5. Students will acquire skills in various data collection methods pertinent to literary
research, such as textual analysis and archival research, and will be proficient in
analyzing data to support their research findings.

6. Students will become adept at using various research tools and resources, including
library databases, digital archives, and reference management software.

UNIT CONTENTS
Introduction to Research: Meaning, Definition, Objectives,
Motivation, Characteristics, Criteria of Good Research, Types of
Research

Research Design: Meaning, need, types of research design –

Exploratory, Descriptive, Casual research Design, Components
UNIT 1
of research design, and Features of good Research design.
Experiments, surveys and case study Research design.

Research Problem: Definition, Selection, Sources, Statement,

Delimiting, Evaluation of a problem

Review of Literature: Definition, Need, Objectives, Sources,

Function; How to conduct Review of Literature, Precautions in
Library Use, Reporting the Review of Literature

Research Hypotheses: Mening, Definition, Nature, Function,

UNIT 2 Importance, Types, Characteristics, Variables, Formulation, and
Testing.

Research Approach: Philosophical Background, Qualitative

Approach, Quantitative Approach, Mixed-Methods Approach,
Criteria for Selecting the Research Approach

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 Research Strategies: Definition and Types; Case studies,
Experiments, Ethnography, Phenomenology, Ground Theory,
Action Research, Mixed-Methods

Research report and its structure: Journal Articles –

UNIT 3 Components of journal article, Explanation of various
components. Structure of an abstract and Keywords. Thesis
and Dissertations: Components of thesis and Dissertations

Referencing Styles and Bibliography; Footnote, Works Cited,

In-text Citation.

Research Ethics: Plagiarism - Definition, different forms,

consequences, unintentional plagiarism, copyright
infringement, collaborative work. Qualities of a good
Researcher.

UNIT 4 ICT Tools for Research: Role of computers in research,

maintenance of data using software such as Mendeley,
Endnote, Tabulation and graphical presentation of research
data and software tools. Using search engines and advanced
search tools.

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 Course Type: Core
Travel Writing
DSE

Course Code:
ENGUGMDS4703B Credit: 4

Course Description:
Using the focused theme of travel and travel literature, this course aims to develop the
critical skills required to read, write, and dialogue effectively and critically in collegiate,
professional, and personal contexts through the introduction of different types of travel
literature, as well as ways of interpreting and responding to texts from diverse historical
and cultural contexts. Travel writing has some special features that will shape both the
content and the work for this subject: reflecting the point of view, narrative choices, and
style of individuals, it also responds to the pressures of a real world only marginally under
their control. Whether the traveler is a curious tourist, the leader of a national expedition,
or a starving, half-naked survivor, the encounter with place shapes what travel writing can
be and how the discursive relation of self and other has been constructed across time and
through a range of complex cultural interrelations in travel writing.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to appreciate various motifs that emerge from travel writing.

2. Students will be able to figure out the course of change and development in the figure
of a traveler across centuries.

3. Students will come to know about diverse cultural context shaped by the experience of
a traveler

4. Students will learn to read the change in the worldview through the beginnings of an
imperial gaze and the then the ‘writing back’ of the orientalized ‘other.’

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UNIT CONTENTS
Marco Polo: The Travels
Christopher Columbus: The Four Voyages of Christopher
Columbus

UNIT 1 James Cook: The Journals of Captain Cook

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Turkish Embassy Letters 1716-
18 (Selections from The Letters and Works of Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu)

Dean Mahomet: The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth

Century Journey Through India
Abu Talib Khan: Westward Bound: Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb

UNIT 2 Nawab Sikandar Begum: A Princess's Pilgrimage: Nawab

Sikandar Begum‘s ―A Pilgrimage to Mecca
Atiya Fyzee: Atiya’s Journey: A Muslim Woman from Colonial
Bombay to Edwardian Britain

Rabindranath Tagore: Selections from Yurop Probasir Patra

(1878) in translation or Letters from Russia
Krishnabhabini Das: A Bengali Lady in England (Translated
by Somdatta Mandal)
UNIT 3 William Dalrymple: The Age of Kali : Indian Travels and
Encounters
Vikram Seth: From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and
Tibet

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 Laurence Durrell: Selections from Sicilian Carousel
Bruce Chatwin: Selections from In Patagonia
UNIT 4
Ernesto Che Guevara: Selections from The Motorcycle Diaries
Pico Iyer: The Global Soul

Course Type: Core

Popular Literature
DSE

Course Code:
ENGUGMDS4703 C Credit: 4

Course Description:
This paper introduces the students the Popular Literature as a part of literary works and
popular culture which develops in the society and becomes a trend. Students will Identify
and analyze the historical, social, political, and literary dynamics which foster the
development of a specific genre of popular literature or of a specific theme manifest in
popular literature. It also discusses genre Fiction of popular literature along with the
characteristics of popular literary works in their genres. This paper also explores
complicated relationship between the meaning of literature and popular literature, and
inter-relationship between popular literature and popular culture. Identifying and
analyzing themes and concerns which define the genre, reflect the culture, characterize the
history of the genre, extend across cultures, and/or appeal to a given culture or subculture.

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Course Outcome:
1. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of popular literature, including its
definition, characteristics, and various genres such as science fiction, fantasy, romance,
mystery, and graphic novels.
2. Students will acquire knowledge of the historical and cultural contexts that influence
the production and consumption of popular literature, and how these contexts shape
genre conventions and audience reception.
3. Students will develop the ability to critically analyze popular literary texts, recognizing
and interpreting key themes, narrative techniques, and genre-specific conventions.
4. Students will compare and contrast popular literature with other literary traditions
and genres, examining the similarities and differences in thematic concerns, narrative
structures, and stylistic approaches.
5. Students will explore the impact of various media and technological advancements on
the production, distribution, and reception of popular literature, including adaptations in
film, television, and digital platforms.
6. Students will develop a heightened sensitivity to the diverse cultural and social issues
addressed in popular literature, fostering an appreciation for the ways in which these
texts reflect and shape societal values and norms.

UNIT CONTENTS
Defining/Introducing the genre
Brief history from evolution till present era

UNIT 1 Introducing various popular genres

Introducing Academic & Critical Attitudes towards popular
Literature.

Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventure in Wonderland / Through the

Looking Glass

UNIT 2 J.R.R.Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
Satyajit Ray: Incredible Adventures of Professor Shanku

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 Bram Stoker: Dracula
Stephen King: It
UNIT 3 Danya Kukafka: Notes on an Execution
Jo Nesbo: The Snowman

Art Spiegelman: Maus

Sarnath Banerjee: The Barn Owl‘s Wondrous Capers
Herge: Tintin in Tibet

UNIT 4 Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam: Bhimayana: Experiences

of Untouchability/Autobiographical Notes on Ambedkar (For the
Visually Challenged students)
Blog Literature: Riverbend

Course Type: Minor British Literature: Modern Period

Course Code:
ENGUGMIN4707 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This paper offers an in-depth exploration of British literary works produced between 1900
and 1945, a transformative era marked by significant social, political, and cultural
upheavals. This period encompasses the modernist experimentation of the early 20th
century, the impact of the two World Wars, and the shifting paradigms of the interwar years.
Students will engage with key literary movements, including Modernism, and examine the
works of influential authors such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden
etc. Through close readings, critical analysis, and contextual exploration, the course aims to
illuminate how these writers responded to and reflected the complexities of their time,
offering insights into the evolution of literary forms and themes during this dynamic period.

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Course Outcome:
1. This course will help the students understand and negotiate the difficult and
complex existence of human beings in relation to the society and the world around
them.

2. This course will also help the students make sense of the various changes and
experiments that were adopted by the authors of the modern period.

3. Students will be able to relate the developments in various epistemological

explorations in science, sociology and anthropology to the literary and cultural
expressions of modern period that had shaped a world view completely different
from the Victorian era

W. B. Yeats: Selections
T. S. Eliot: Selections
Wilfred Owen: Selections
UNIT 1
W. H. Auden: Selections
Dylan Thomas: Selections

Jospeh Conrad: The Heart of Darkness/Lord Jim

D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers / Rainbow

UNIT 2 Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway/ To The Lighthouse

James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
E. M. Forster: A Passage to India

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 Katherine Mansfield: Select Short Stories
James Joyce: Select Short Stories
Somerset Maugham: Select Short Stories

UNIT 3 Joseph Conrad: Select Short Stories

Essays:
T.S. Eliot: ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’
Virginia Woolf: "Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown"

G.B. Shaw: Arms and the Man

UNIT 4
J. M. Synge: Riders to the Sea

Course Type:
Dissertation-I
DISSERTATION

Course Code:
ENGUGPRJ4701 Credit: 4

Course Description:

This course is a culminating component of the B.A. in English program, designed to provide
students with an opportunity to conduct original research and produce a substantial
scholarly work. This course guides students through the process of identifying a research
topic, formulating a research question, and developing a well-structured dissertation that
contributes to the field of English literature. Students will engage in in-depth analysis,
critical thinking, and academic writing, demonstrating their ability to synthesize knowledge
acquired throughout their studies. Through individual supervision and peer feedback,

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students will refine their research methodologies, articulate their findings, and present a
polished, coherent dissertation that showcases their scholarly expertise and research
capabilities.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct original research by identifying and
defining a research question or problem relevant to the field of literature and culture.

2. Students will effectively review and synthesize existing scholarship related to their
research topic, critically engaging with primary and secondary sources to contextualize
their work.

3. Students will apply appropriate research methodologies and theoretical frameworks to

their dissertation, demonstrating a sound understanding of research design and analytical
techniques.

4. Students will produce a well-organized and clearly written dissertation that adheres to
academic standards, including proper citation and formatting, and effectively
communicates their research findings and arguments.

5. Students will exhibit advanced critical thinking skills by analyzing and interpreting
complex literary texts and theoretical concepts, and by integrating their findings into a
coherent scholarly argument.

6. Students will produce a dissertation that makes a meaningful contribution to the field of
English literature, reflecting their scholarly depth and understanding of their research
area.

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 SEMESTER VIII

Course Type: Major European Classical Literature

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC4818 Credit: 4

Course Description:
Diverse as they are, European literatures or what we often refer to as Western Canon, not
unlike European languages, are flowerings and parts of a common heritage. The common
literary heritage is principally that originating in ancient Greece and Rome. To the present
day, notwithstanding its great diversity, this body of writing shows a unity in its key
characteristics that sets it apart from the literatures of the rest of the world. Writings of
Antiquity in Greek and in Latin which have survived the ravages of time carry the signs of
the heights reached by the creative imagination and intellect of the ancient world. This
course would introduce the students to this great body of writing which, to use the cliché,
is timeless. It will require students to make a study of major Greek and Latin literature,
considering these texts in relation to myth, ritual, religion and law and also in the light of
recent scholarship on philosophy and cultural theory.

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Course Outcome:

1. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of key canonical texts from Greek
and Roman literature, including works by authors such as Homer, Sophocles, Euripides,
Virgil, and Ovid.

2. Students will acquire knowledge of the historical, social, and cultural contexts in which
these classical texts were written, and how these contexts influenced their themes, genres,
and literary forms.

3. Students will explore the influence of classical literature on later European and Western
literary traditions, understanding how classical themes, motifs, and narratives have been
adapted and reinterpreted in subsequent literary works.

4. Students will develop a deeper appreciation for the cultural and philosophical
contributions of Greek and Roman literature, fostering a greater understanding of its
significance in shaping literary and cultural traditions.

5. Students will gain familiarity with key concepts in the original Greek and Latin texts,
enhancing their ability to appreciate the nuances of classical literature, even if they are not
working with the original languages.

UNIT CONTENTS

Homer: Iliad (Selections)

UNIT 1 Sappho: Selections

Pindar: Odes (Selections)

Sophocles: Oedipus the King

Aeschylus: Agamemnon
UNIT 2
Euripides: Medea
Aristophanes: Frogs

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 Virgil: Aeneid (Selections)
Ovid: Metamorphoses (Selections)

UNIT 3 Horace: Odes (Selections)

Seneca: Thyestes
Plautus: Pot of Gold

Dante: Divine Comedy (Selections)

UNIT 4
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron (Selections)

Course Type: Major Modern European Literature

Course Code:
ENGUGMCC4819 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of European literary developments from
the late 19th century through the 20th century, focusing on key movements, themes, and
authors that shaped modern European literature. This course will delve into the rich and
diverse literary traditions of Europe, examining works from influential writers across
various countries and languages. Students will engage with major literary movements such
as Modernism, Postmodernism, and existentialism, and study how these movements reflect
and respond to the profound social, political, and cultural changes of the modern era.
Through close readings, critical analysis, and contextual exploration, students will gain a
deeper understanding of the ways in which modern European literature engages with
themes of identity, alienation, and innovation, and how it continues to influence global
literary landscapes.

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Course Outcome:
1. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of major literary movements in
modern European literature, including Modernism, Postmodernism, and existentialism,
and how these movements reflect the social and cultural transformations of the late 19th
and 20th centuries.
2. Students will acquire knowledge of the historical, political, and cultural contexts that
influenced modern European literature, and how these contexts are reflected in the works
of major European writers.
3. Students will explore the impact of modern European literature on global literary
traditions and contemporary literary practices, understanding how European authors
have influenced and been influenced by broader literary trends.
4. Students will develop a heightened sensitivity to the diverse cultural and philosophical
contributions of modern European literature, fostering a deeper appreciation for its
significance in shaping literary and cultural discourse.

UNIT CONTENTS
Charles Baudelaire: Selection of Poems
Arthur Rimbaud: Selection of Poems
Anna Akhmatova: Selection of Poems

UNIT 1 Rainer Maria Rilke: Selection of Poems

Tomas Transtromer: Selection of Poems
André Breton: Selection of Poems
Federico Garcia Lorca: Selection of Poems
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Franz Kafka: The Trial/ Metamorphoses
G. Flaubert: Madame Bovary
UNIT 2
Thomas Mann: Death in Venice
Sartre: Nausea
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum

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 Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House / Ghosts
August Strindberg: A Dream Play/ Miss Julie
Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard / The Seagull
Louigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author

UNIT 3 Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children / The

Caucasian Chalk Circle
Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Jean Anouilh: Antigone
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Anatole France: Selections of Short Stories

Nikolai Gogol: Selections of Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant: Selections of Short Stories
Anton Chekhov: Selections of Short Stories
UNIT 4
Honore de Balzac: Selections of Short Stories
J. M. G. Le Clézio: Selections of Short Stories
Italo Calvino: Selections of Short Stories
Umberto Eco: Selections of Short Stories

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 Course Type: Major
Emerging Trends in Literature
(DSE)

Course Code:
ENGUGMDS4804 A Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course offers an innovative exploration of contemporary literary responses to the
pressing environmental and ecological challenges facing our planet. This course delves into
a diverse range of genres and movements, including cli-fi (climate fiction), eco-horror, eco-
dystopia, eco-theatre, eco-fantasy, petrofiction, medical humanities, bioethics, blue
humanities, and hydrofictions. Students will engage with texts that address themes of
environmental degradation, climate change, and ecological justice, analyzing how literature
reflects and critiques the intersections of human activity and planetary health. By examining
these genres and their thematic concerns, students will develop a deeper understanding of
how literary works contribute to our awareness of and response to planetary crises, and
how they shape our collective imagination regarding the future of the environment.

Course Outcome:

1. Students will delve into how various literary genres, including cli-fi, eco-horror, and eco-
dystopia, engage with themes of environmental crisis, exploring how these texts articulate
the impacts of ecological degradation and climate change on human and non-human lives.

2. Students will analyze the unique narrative strategies and stylistic features of genres like
eco-theatre, eco-fantasy, and hydrofictions, understanding how these forms of literature
reflect and critique contemporary environmental issues.

3. Students will investigate the intersections of literature with fields such as medical
humanities, bioethics, and blue humanities, examining how these disciplines inform
literary portrayals of ecological and planetary concerns.

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4. Students will critically evaluate how different literary works contribute to debates
around environmental ethics, sustainability, and the Anthropocene, using concepts from
eco-criticism and related theoretical frameworks.

5. Students will engage with and reflect on innovative literary responses to planetary
crises, assessing how these works challenge traditional boundaries of literature and offer
new ways of envisioning human and environmental relationships.

UNIT CONTENTS
Ian McEwan: Solar
Steven Amsterdam: Things We Didn't See Coming
Ilija Trojanow: The Lamentations of Zeno
Maggie Gee: The Ice People/ The Flood
UNIT 1
(Cli-fi and Upton Sinclair: Oil!
Petrofiction)
Abdelrahman Munif: Cities of Salt
Nawal El-Saadawi: Love in the Kingdom of Oil
Helon Habila: Oil on Water

Yann Martel: Life of Pi

Tim Winton: Breath
Moique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch
Karen Jennings: An Island
UNIT 2
(Hydrofiction and Emmi Itäranta: Memory of Water
Blue umanities) Paolo Bacigalupi: The Water Knife
Sayed Kashua: Let it be Morning
Sarah Joseph: Budhini
Laline Paull: Pod

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 Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Susan Gubar: Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian
Cancer

UNIT 3 Philip Roth: Nemesis

(Medical Nana-Ama Danquah: Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's
Humanities and
Bioethics) Journey Through Depression
Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Joe Penhall: Blue/Orange
Naomi Wallace: One Flea Spare

Eco-dystopia: Octavia E Butler: Parable of the Sower / John

Christopher (Sam Youd): The Death Of Grass
Eco-fantasy: Naomi Novik: Uprooted / Mary Fairclogh: The
Rainmakers
UNIT 4
(Environmental Eco-thriller: Liz Jensen: The Rupture / Laline Paull: The Bees/
fiction) The Ice
Eco-theatre: Clare Duffy: Arctic Oil / Theresa May: Salmon is
Everything/ Rahul Varma: Bhopal

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 Course Type: Major
Autobiographical Literature
(DSE)

Course Code:
ENGUGMDS4804 B Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course seeks to explore the literary analysis of autobiography and other forms of life
writing for ways in which the subject, the "I," disguises the true "self" in written narratives.
This course also deals with critical theories of autobiography focusing on issues such as
truth, selectivity, memory, and subjectivity, issues that have been of concern in the last
decades of the twentieth century. Recent scholarship focuses on effects of race, gender,
ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age, as well as on issues arising in specific disciplines that
use autobiography.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will be able to appreciate various thematic considerations that emerge from
life-narratives.

2. Students will be able to figure out the courses of change and development in the figure
of the writer writing about the ‘self’.

3. Students will come to know about diverse cultural context shaped by the experience of
an individual and the individual within a community.

4. Students will learn to read the change in the worldview through the beginnings of a
white androcentric gaze and then the writing back of the minoritized ‘other’.

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UNIT CONTENTS
St.Augustine : The Confessions of St.Augustine
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Stuart Mill: Autobiography

UNIT 1 Zahir Dehlvi: Dastan-e-Ghadar: The Tale of the Mutiny

Roland Barthes: Roland Barthes
Nancy K. Miller: Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other
Autobiographical Acts

Maxim Gorky: My Childhood

Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Michael Ondaatjee: Running in the Family
UNIT 2
Satyajit Ray: Childhood Days: A Memoir
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
Rabindranath Tagore: My Reminiscences

A. Revathi: Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story

Audre Lorde: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Carolyn Steedman: Landscape for a Good Woman
UNIT 3
Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Urmila Pawar: The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs
Rasa Sundari Devi: My Life
Mahatma Gandhi: The Story of My Experiment with Truth
Malcolm X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

UNIT 4 Annie Besant: Annie Besant: An Autobiography

Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Part I To Part V)
APJ Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire

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 Course Type: Major
Literature and Gender
(DSE)

Course Code:
Credit: 4
ENGUGMDS4804C

Course Description:
This course looks closely at literature by and/or about women as it informs their gendered
identity. Historical and chronological discussion of gender role, definition and the
relationship between that and how women, transgenders, male, and other are viewed and
view themselves is a key component of this course. Discussion of readings from a wide range
of authors writing in different genres of literature trace the development of women's
writings and increases students’ appreciation and awareness of the excellence in women’s
writing. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with key issues, questions
and debates in Gender Studies scholarship, both historical and contemporary.

Course Outcome:

1. Acquisition of skills in analyzing literature through close reading informed by the

critical tradition of gender studies.

2. Familiarity with the vocabulary and discourse of feminism, gender studies, and queer
theory.

3. Production of writing that demonstrates the ability to create coherent arguments about
literature through the application of critical theory to text.

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UNIT CONTENTS
Judith Butler: Selections from Gender Trouble
Lila Abu-Lughod: Selections from Do Muslim Women Need
Saving?
Nancy J. Chodorow: "Heterosexuality as a Compromise
Formation"

UNIT 1 Serena Nanda: "Hijras as Neither Man nor Woman". In The Gay
and Lesbian Studies Reader.
R. W. Connell: “The Science of Masculinities”
Jack Halberstam: Selections from Female Masculinity
Judith Halberstam: “F2M: The Making of Female Masculinity”
Donald Hall: Selections from Queer Theories
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: Selection of Poems
Michael Field: Selection of Poems
Marianne Moore: Selection of Poems
UNIT 2
Audre Lorde: Selection of Poems
Amy Lowell: Selection of Poems
Adrienne Rich: Selection of Poems
Ama Ata Aidoo: "Something to Talk About on the Way to the
Funeral" in No Sweetness Here and Other Stories.
Hisaye Yamamoto: "Seventeen Syllables" from Seventeen
Syllables and Other Stories.

UNIT 3 Mahasweta Devi. "Breastgiver"/ "Draupadi"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Ismat Chughtai: Selections from Lifting the Veil.
Leslie Feinberg: Stone Butch Blues
James Baldwin: Giovanni’s Room

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 Sarah Daniels: The Gut Girls/ Head-Rot Holiday
Wendy Wasserstein: The Heidi Chronicles
Marsha Norman: Night, Mother
UNIT 4
Mahesh Dattani: Dance Like a Man
Caryl Churchill: Cloud Nine
Paula Vogel: How I Learned to Drive / Indecent
Manjula Padmanabhan: Harvest / Lights Out

Course Type: Minor British Literature: Post-1945

Course Code: ENGUGMIN4808

Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and diverse landscape of British
literature from the end of World War II to the present day. This period marks a time of
profound social, political, and cultural transformation, reflected in the literary output of
the era. Students will examine the evolution of literary forms and themes through the
works of influential authors. The course will address significant movements and trends,
including postmodernism, post-colonialism, and contemporary concerns, exploring how
British literature engages with issues of identity, globalization, and the changing nature of
the nation. Through critical readings, theoretical frameworks, and contextual analysis,
students will gain insight into how contemporary British literature reflects and shapes the
dynamic realities of the modern world.

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Course Outcome:
1. Students will develop a thorough understanding of key literary trends and movements
in British literature from 1945 to the present, including postmodernism, post-
colonialism, and contemporary literature.

2. Students will critically analyze and interpret a range of texts by notable British
authors, examining how these works engage with themes such as identity, globalization,
and social change.

3. Students will gain insight into the socio-political and cultural contexts that have
shaped British literature since World War II, understanding how historical events and
cultural shifts influence literary production and themes.

4. Students will develop a nuanced understanding of the diverse voices and perspectives
present in modern British literature, fostering an appreciation for the multicultural and
pluralistic nature of contemporary British society.

UNIT CONTENTS
Phillip Larkin: Selections
Ted Hughes: Selections
UNIT 1
Seamus Heaney: Selections
Carol Anne Duffy: Selections

George Orwell: 1984

William Golding: The Lord of the Flies
John Fowles: The French Lieutenants's
Woman
UNIT 2
Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing
Muriel Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie

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 John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and
UNIT 3
Guildenstern are Dead
Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
Edward Bond: Saved/ Lear
Bertrand Russel: Selection of Essays
Anthony Powell: Selection of Essays
Angela Carter: Selection of Essays
UNIT 4
Muriel Spark: Selection of Short Stories
Elizabeth Bowen: Selection of Short
Stories

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 Course Type:
Dissertation-II
Dissertation

Course Code:
ENGUGPRJ4802 Credit: 4

Course Description:
This course represents the capstone experience of this program, offering students the
opportunity to engage in an extensive and independent research project. This course is
designed to guide students through the process of crafting a substantial academic
dissertation that demonstrates their ability to conduct original research, contribute to
scholarly discourse, and apply advanced analytical methods to a specific area of literary
study. Students will select a research topic of their choice, develop a comprehensive
research plan, and produce a well-argued and meticulously structured dissertation that
reflects their scholarly interests and expertise. Through close mentorship and iterative
feedback, students will refine their research question, engage deeply with primary and
secondary sources, and present their findings in a polished, academic format. The course
emphasizes the development of critical thinking, research proficiency, and academic
writing skills, culminating in a dissertation that exemplifies the student’s intellectual
growth and research capabilities.

Course Outcome:
1. Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct original research by identifying and
defining a research question or problem relevant to the field of literature and culture.

2. Students will effectively review and synthesize existing scholarship related to their
research topic, critically engaging with primary and secondary sources to contextualize
their work.

3. Students will apply appropriate research methodologies and theoretical frameworks

to their dissertation, demonstrating a sound understanding of research design and
analytical techniques.

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4. Students will produce a well-organized and clearly written dissertation that adheres to
academic standards, including proper citation and formatting, and effectively
communicates their research findings and arguments.

5. Students will exhibit advanced critical thinking skills by analyzing and interpreting
complex literary texts and theoretical concepts, and by integrating their findings into a
coherent scholarly argument.

6. Students will produce a dissertation that makes a meaningful contribution to the field
of English literature, reflecting their scholarly depth and understanding of their research
area.

Course Type:
Dissertation-III
Dissertation

Course Code:
ENGUGPRJ4803 Credit: 4
Course Description:
This course represents the capstone experience of this program, offering students the
opportunity to engage in an extensive and independent research project. This course is
designed to guide students through the process of crafting a substantial academic
dissertation that demonstrates their ability to conduct original research, contribute to
scholarly discourse, and apply advanced analytical methods to a specific area of literary
study. Students will select a research topic of their choice, develop a comprehensive
research plan, and produce a well-argued and meticulously structured dissertation that
reflects their scholarly interests and expertise. Through close mentorship and iterative
feedback, students will refine their research question, engage deeply with primary and
secondary sources, and present their findings in a polished, academic format. The course
emphasizes the development of critical thinking, research proficiency, and academic
writing skills, culminating in a dissertation that exemplifies the student’s intellectual
growth and research capabilities.

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 Course Outcome:
1. Students will demonstrate the ability to conduct original research by identifying and
defining a research question or problem relevant to the field of literature and culture.

2. Students will effectively review and synthesize existing scholarship related to their
research topic, critically engaging with primary and secondary sources to contextualize
their work.

3. Students will apply appropriate research methodologies and theoretical frameworks

to their dissertation, demonstrating a sound understanding of research design and
analytical techniques.

4. Students will produce a well-organized and clearly written dissertation that adheres to
academic standards, including proper citation and formatting, and effectively
communicates their research findings and arguments.

5. Students will exhibit advanced critical thinking skills by analyzing and interpreting
complex literary texts and theoretical concepts, and by integrating their findings into a
coherent scholarly argument.

6. Students will produce a dissertation that makes a meaningful contribution to the field
of English literature, reflecting their scholarly depth and understanding of their research
area.

N.B.: The syllabus from First to Fifth Semester is approved by the Board of Studies,
Department of English. The rest is a draft that needs to incorporate changes
suggested by the BOS.

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